Look at the discussion tab. You have three questions to answer about Zebra and the poem below. All three questions are due on Friday, October 15th by midnight.
The Rider
by Naomi Shihah Nye
A boy told me if he rollerskated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him,
the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion.
What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles.
A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behing you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, luminous pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.
Zebra
Look at the discussion tab. You have three questions to answer about Zebra and the poem below. All three questions are due on Friday, October 15th by midnight.
The Rider
by Naomi Shihah NyeA boy told me
if he rollerskated fast enough
his loneliness couldn't catch up to him,
the best reason I ever heard
for trying to be a champion.
What I wonder tonight
pedaling hard down King William Street
is if it translates to bicycles.
A victory! To leave your loneliness
panting behing you on some street corner
while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas,
luminous pink petals that have never felt loneliness,
no matter how slowly they fell.